In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Named a best book of the year by NPR/FRESH AIR, Washington Post The New Yorker and Time Magazine. Winner of two Jewish Book Club Awards - Best Book Club and Best Fiction.